Artwork preview

Inside a Foreign Restaurant

Utagawa Yoshikazu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colorful woodblock print of a restaurant interior with three men, a dog. The standing man on the left wears a long black coat and white pants. Another man sits on a low platform, wearing a green top and blue pants. A third man, taller and wearing a similar black coat, holds a basket of food. A white dog sits on the floor. A table with a kettle and pots sits on the left. On the right, shelves display various household items. A blue banner with Japanese text runs across the top. A man in a red jacket stands outside in the background. The walls and floor are made of wood.

Artwork details

Date:
10th month, 1860
Medium:
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
431 × 624 px
Museum record:
View original
Palette

You May Also Like

Ofuji, the Shop Girl of the Motoyanagiya, with a Customer
Otsu—No. 54, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Reisho Tokaido
Henjo, from the series "Six Immortal Poets (Rokkasen)"
Chushingura: Act IX of The Storehouse of Loyalty
The Actors Nakamura Riko I as Tanbaya Otsuma and Ichikawa Yaozo III as Furuteya Hachirobei, in the joruri "Sakamachi Yoi no Yotsutsuji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the third month, 1785
The Actor Onoe Matsusuke I in the Wardrobe Room of a Theater
Entertainment on a Balcony by the Water at Nakasu, from the series, A Collection of Beautiful Modern Women of the Pleasure Quarters
Akasaka, from the series "Fifty-three Stations [of the Tokaido] (Gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Figure Tokaido (Jinbutsu Tokaido)
Minakuchi, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)"
Good and Evil Influences (Zendama akudama)
Amerikajin
Foreigners Enjoying Themselves in the Gankirō
A Foreigner's Wine Party (Gaikokujin shuen no zu), from an untitled series of foreigners at home
Snake, from the series "Fashionable Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (Furyu juni shi)"
Returning Sails at Shinagawa (Shinagawa no kihan), from the series "Eight Fashionable Views of Edo (Furyu Edo hakkei)"
Sales Room at the Foreign Trade Building in Yokohama
Artisans, from the series "An Up-to-Date Parody of the Four Classes"
Shono, from the series "Fifty-three Stations [of the Tokaido] (Gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Figure Tokaido (Jinbutsu Tokaido)
Descending Geese in the Archery Gallery (Yokyuba no Rakugan)
Women in a Mansion
The Eleventh Month
Courtesan and Her Sleepy Attendant
Courtesan Stepping out of a Palanquin
Foreigners Employing a Camera